Ur Notebook Scan -- 1929 - Box: 10 Folder: 5 - Page: 001b | Ur Notebook Scan -- 1929 - Box: 10 Fol
| Omeka Title: | PA-DI-B10-F005-001b-1929.jpg |
| Omeka ID: | 6420 |
| Transcription: | a gold pin and some odds objects.40/Two \"'inlay plaques\"' and \"'a copper head\"' decorating a harp. The plaques represent early sumerian[sic] figures and the back ground is of blue lapis of the style of the semicircular cosmetic box of the queen.These are the leading objects. Besides are a collection of \"'eight head dresses\"' of \"'ladies of the court\"', with combs, gold bands, crowns, earrings, and chockers[sic]. [the author used brackets around the next section][I notice that all chockers[sic] are made of gold and lapis triangles [sketch: three triangles], and we will have to reconstruct the chocker[sic] of queen Shubad on the same lines.] And many other loose parts of the same head dresses.Some very \"'beautiful seals\"'in lapis, green \"'jadeite\"' stone, \"'shell\"' and \"'diorite\"' [hand-written plus sign] one \"'royal seal\"', and several inscribed seals. Some beautiful alabaster vases. One unique vase [sketch: square vase] divided in four compartments and many other objects of copper and potteryâfew silver objectsâWe left undivided the few remains |
| Media Title: | Ur Notebook Scan -- 1929 - Box: 10 Folder: 5 - Page: 001b |
| Page Number: | 001b |
| Project: | DI |
| Date: | 1929 |
| Author: | Leon Legrain |
| Penn Archival Box Number: | 10 |
| Penn Archival Folder Number: | 5 |
| Crowdsource Tags: | DoF, handwritten, Legrain |
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| People | Full Name | Biography |
|---|---|---|
| Leon Legrain | Father Legrain was born in France, ordained as a priest there in 1904, and studied at the Catholic University of Lille and at the Collegium Appolinare in Rome. Assyriology professor at the Catholic Institute in Paris until WWI, he was then an interpreter in the war. He became curator of the Babylonian Section of the University of Pennsylvania Museum in 1920 and retired in 1952. A specialist in cuneiform, he was the epigraphist at Ur during the 1924-25 and 1925-26 field seasons. He published widely on texts and engraved seals, both in his time before the Penn Museum and after. He published seals and sealings from Ur (Ur Excavations volume 10), some of the tablets (Ur Excavations Texts volume 3) and was slated to publish a volume on the figurines from the site. His research and even an unpublished catalogue for this volume are in archives at the Penn Museum and now available on this website. Even after his two years at the site of Ur, Legrain played an integral role in the excavations. Not only did he research, publish, and display artifacts in the Penn Museum, but he was also the Museum's representative in the division of objects from Ur conducted almost every year in London. Legrain's letters about this process are very interesting, often in a more personal tone than Woolley's. In fact, many of his colleagues declared that Legrain was particularly entertaining and jovial, if cynical. His photographs at Ur are some of the only images we have of daily life, with many pictures of local Iraqis. |
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